Silurian Lake Sunrise

This gallery contains images taken on Silurian Lake, Mojave Desert. The lake-bed of Silurian is normally a firm clay surface. It is one of the few dry lake-beds in the Mojave that is open to vehicles, and it has been featured in several films and numerous TV commercials. In August 2013, during our "monsoon" season, intense thunderstorms hit the area, and Silurian Lake, as an un-drained low point, collected a lot of muddy water from it's surroundings - some of it from miles away. Drying in the desert sun, the sediment layer makes beautiful "dessication polygons", some as wide as a meter. These were shot over two successive mornings. Last four are just goofing around in post-production.